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ICE is attempting to deport an Atlanta-based Spanish-language reporter from El Salvador who has been covering their immigration abductions. He has legal work authorization and a path to a green card. This is pretty obviously an assault on the free press. www.ajc.com/news/2025/06...

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KKR is the private equity firm that also owns Simon & Schuster. They also invests in a German publisher that owns an Israeli site that hosts real estate listings in occupied Palestinian territory. h/t @publisherslunch.bsky.social nltimes.nl/2025/06/16/d...

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still astonishing to me that our country is purging & punishing the people who saved millions of lives just a few years ago while giving their power to the ones who killed millions.

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Trump just shared this alarming text from Israeli Ambassador Mike Huckabee, effusively praising him while telling him that no president has been in his position "since Truman in 1945" (when the U.S. dropped the atomic bomb on Japan) & that he "will hear a voice from heaven" telling him what to do.

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This seems to be a very effective nonviolent delay tactic for ICE raids. Any time you can identify a bottleneck in their process — where they have to be in the same place at a consistent time of day — you can interdict their route

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Read this thread by David. Then come back for a story about the radicalization of one state’s GOP that illustrates David’s point.

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For decades, US presidents from both parties used a simple formulation for defining a tyrant: a leader who threatens or uses military force to suppress their domestic political opposition. Now we have a president doing just that and conservatives are cheering. www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

submitted 5 hours ago • 54 comments

It's pretty notable that mainstream, establishment discourse never ever ever considers giving liberal politicians credit for crime reductions. It's almost axiomatic that if crime goes down under a center-left leader it's either unremarked upon, or must be driven by something else.

submitted 21 hours ago • 166 comments

When Trump finally dies there will be calls for civility and “respect for the office” from even his harshest critics and I’m telling you right now I plan on saying things so harsh they might knock the earth off its axis

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You can still find durable appliances that can last for decades — but only if you are willing to make certain trade-offs. Our expert's research uncovered seven tips on making your appliance last. nyti.ms/4e2Tymm

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We raised money to build an inclusive playground. People on social media said inclusive playground are “woke.” So we helped build another. Welcome to build day at Shelton Elementary in Golden, CO.

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The reconciliation bill's hikes in farm subsidies "are brazen.... the GOP doesn’t just spare millionaire farmers from cuts, they aggressively expand inefficient farm giveaways by $57 billion." And they "lavished the biggest subsidy increases on GOP parts of the country." [Chris Edwards, @cato.org]

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Thermostatic public opinion comes for every issue in the end

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

A “shift” never happened. A chaotic raid at a worksite and a warrantless sweep in our communities have the same outcome. Bullshit rhetoric aside, they’re hunting us down while we’re trying to feed you. Who’s actually in charge?

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I just tried to pre-order the Trump T1 Phone, the new all gold phone from the Trump Organization. The website failed, went to an error page, and then charged my credit card the wrong amount of $64.70. I have no idea whether or how I’ll receive the phone. www.404media.co/trump-mobile...

submitted 23 hours ago • 113 comments

I just don't think it's sinking in how fucking evil this man is. The legislation he's created is designed so that the state can simply ignore huge swaths of existing legislation, from surveillance to extraction to deportation.

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One funny aspect of Trump is that, unlike other politicians, he is not aware that this mob-boss mentality is something you should try to hide or play down for appearances. He cannot imagine that anyone else thinks differently. He cannot imagine it's possible to think differently.

submitted 18 hours ago • 35 comments

I spoke to teenagers about why kids are role playing as ICE agents, staging raids on “illegals” within the game, and the mass anti-ICE protests that have also broken out within the game www.usermag.co/p/kids-are-p...

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Trump’s attempts to dehumanize large segments of the American people in order to use military force against them fits the classic definition of “tyranny,” and right wing rhetoric using the phrase “third world” to justify it is no accident (gift link) www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archiv...

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Hundreds of locals, some holding water guns, protested overtourism in Lisbon, Barcelona, Venice and other cities on Sunday. “One more tourist, one less neighbor,” a protester’s sign declared in Catalan.

submitted 23 hours ago • 22 comments

A pretty inevitable result of Airbnb creating a zero-sum competition between residents and tourists for housing units, instead of building traditional hotels.

submitted 22 hours ago • 13 comments

I wrote about the ICE war on Los Angeles workers for @nymag.com. Which is really more a story about how workers and the families and neighbors who love them are not going to let the Trump regime ruin their city and the things they've fought for over decades. nymag.com/intelligence...

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this bill is a disaster SPECIFICALLY for Mike Johnson’s district. 11 (!) hospitals at risk are on this list. There are 15 at risk in the neighboring district (mine-Julia Letlow).

submitted 22 hours ago • 4 comments

Here in Washington state, 3,866,398 acres are on the line. This includes some of the most carbon-dense forest in the world, with immeasurable value for climate resilience, biodiversity conservation, and human health and well-being.

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Happening now: a small group of protesters are once again blocking ICE agents' vans outside immigration court in Chicago. Masked agents with handcuffs are threatening activists with arrest and intimidating photographers. Situation is tense, we'll update as we can.

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So Trump family says they're going to stand up a new mobile phone factory and have a new phone in production in three months and basically all the mainstream press is saying, yep, sounds legit. Can't wait to see it. talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/just-...

submitted 22 hours ago • 81 comments

IRS agents have helped establish perimeters during immigration raids and other operations, and a new partnership offers 100 TSA Air Marshals to conduct deportation flight security functions www.govexec.com/management/2...

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If you want an example of the failings of Community Notes, look no further than Musk spreading misinfo in the hours after the Minnesota shooting. The shooter has now been IDed as a Trump supporter. There is no community note on Musk or the original post he quotes.

submitted 22 hours ago • 27 comments

Unsurprisingly, Cuomo’s car has been ticketed for speeding in a school zone four times in a month howsmydrivingny.nyc/h97qmnh0

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Local Nazis Shocked and Saddened their Nazi Friend Acted Upon their Shared Beliefs www.startribune.com/suspect-show...

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NEW: GAO has ruled Trump illegally impounded funds. “IMLS ceased performing agency functions and withheld from obligation and expenditure funds that Congress appropriated for such functions. … GAO concludes that IMLS has violated the ICA by withholding funds from obligation and expenditure.“

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“I was born here,” Jason Brian Gavidia shouted as a federal agent twisted his arm & pressed him against a fence outside his auto body shop in a working-class L.A. suburb. “I’m an American, bro!” Vivid @nytimes.com reporting on the targeting of U.S. citizens of Hispanic descent.

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Republicans - Democrats are vile subhuman demons and good Christian citizens should fear them and be prepared to take up arms against this menance Democrats - well you're entitled to your point of view but can we perhaps work on this bipartisan legislation to deregulate crypto banking scams?

submitted 22 hours ago • 5 comments

we are living in the golden age of scamming and grifting

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class action lawsuit against the political text message spam regime www.404media.co/winred-texts...

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it’s really easy actually. when i write about this stuff for my newspaper column, i try to capture the nuances and i am using whatever authority i have as a person in the business to criticize my peers for not doing the same

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People will tell you that they view property destruction as equivalent to violence against a person, but that's not true. They think property destruction is worse

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These are the people trying to use Cuomo to steal New York from us.

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Utah voters: Are these really your values? Mike Lee is the best you can do?

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Heavily militarized border enforcement pushes people to attempt deadlier routes through dangerous terrain, costing lives, experts say. The remains of more and more migrants have been found in the New Mexico desert from @sourcenm.com‬ / ‪@texastribune.org‬ sourcenm.com/2025/06/16/d...

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“It took years to be where we are now and in a hundred days everything was destroyed.” Alexandra Villareal of @hechingerreport.org explores the far-reaching effects of Trump's devastating cuts and cancellations, as seen from a Texas campus.

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The Dallas Express, which sued me (and lost) for calling it right wing propaganda, published an article suggesting in the form of a question that the assassination of Democratic elected officials in Minnesota could be "Democrats kill[ing] their own so they could turn around and blame Republicans?"

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political press is doing a real disservice by basically not reporting the nuances of public opinion on deportations, and creating the appearance that most americans support the stephen miller-style gestapo tactics

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“The strategy: order agencies to freeze the spending now — then ask Congress’ approval, using a maneuver that allows the cuts to become permanent if lawmakers fail to act.” This is a form of impoundment that sidelines Congress & the compliant GOPers that run it. www.politico.com/news/2025/06...

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Two of the three states with the largest population of people in the U.S. illegally are the red states of Texas and Florida. Trump, notably, does not name their cities when calling on ICE to execute more aggressive immigration raids. He does, however, name LA, Chicago and New York.

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Walz: "This cannot be the norm. It cannot be the way that we deal with our political differences. Now is the time for us to recommit to the core values of this country ... Talk to a neighbor rather than arguing. Debate an issue. Shake hands. Find common ground. This is who Melissa Hortman was."

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"Martin" is a Central Coast strawberry harvester. "I've been working as a strawberry picker for 10 years. Right now we're harvesting piece rate which means I need to work very fast to harvest as many boxes as I can. A few extra boxes means extra money to feed my family." #WeFeedYou

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BREAKING: The Supreme Court will hear an appeal from a New Jersey faith-based pregnancy center challenging a state investigative subpoena.

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